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End of the Road
Read more: End of the RoadAfter a decade of advocating for the developer community, the time has come to wind down the Developers Alliance. For some of you, this may come as a shock. As…
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Troll Targets Life Saving Small Businesses
Read more: Troll Targets Life Saving Small BusinessesIn the software community, small businesses and innovative startups are far too familiar with patent trolls and their unscrupulous business model. Patent trolls are entities that don’t innovate, create, or otherwise contribute to our country’s growth. Instead they wield overly broad, never-should-have-been-issued patents to threaten litigation and extort settlement payments.
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Patent Trolls Jeopardize Public Safety; Victims Urge Congress to Legislate
Read more: Patent Trolls Jeopardize Public Safety; Victims Urge Congress to LegislateWashington, D.C. (September 15, 2015) – The Application Developers Alliance and several small companies sued by 911 Notify, a notorious patent troll, today called on Congress to swiftly pass patent reform legislation. Gulfstream Telematics LLC (Colo.), LifeLine Response (Ill.), MobileTREC Corporation (Calif.), CarShield Services Inc. (Calif.),ICEdot (Okla.), and more than 40 other public safety providers sued by 911 Notify since 2013,…
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Guest Post: Why Software Projects Fail
Read more: Guest Post: Why Software Projects FailSoftware development is exploding. As the world economy transforms to more digital modes of operation, the skill and competence to build custom applications is becoming table stakes in this innovation-centric world. At the same time, the volume, complexity, and importance of custom software has continued to escalate, placing an ever greater burden on software developers…
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The IoT on focus
Read more: The IoT on focusThe Internet of Things is becoming the focus of many discussions in the European Institutions. Policy makers are responding by developing several initiatives focussing on different aspects. Following the outcomes of the 2013 public consultation, the European Commission designed a full range of actions aiming to fully deploy IoT within the Digital Agenda.
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Representing developers in the implementation of the EU mHealth strategy:
Read more: Representing developers in the implementation of the EU mHealth strategy:As a follow up to the mHealth Green Paper consultation, the European Commission set up several industry-led Working Groups, focussing on privacy and security, and quality and reliability of mobile health apps. Specifically, the WGs aim at drafting Codes of Conduct regulating different aspects of the well-being and lifestyle apps ecosystem.
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IoT Influencers Summit: The Business Case for the Internet of Things
Read more: IoT Influencers Summit: The Business Case for the Internet of ThingsThe producers of APPNATION and the Chief Digital Officer Global Forum launched the inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) Influencers Summit in July at Levi’s Stadium in Silicon Valley. As a champion for innovation in the IoT space, the Apps Alliance was honored to support the conference by hosting three sessions: Leveraging Data to Monetize Wearables and…
